heroic verse

American  

noun

1. a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is

   Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!

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heroic verse British  

noun

1. prosody a type of verse suitable for epic or heroic subjects, such as the classical hexameter, the French Alexandrine, or the English iambic pentameter

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Etymology

Origin of heroic verse

First recorded in 1610–20

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Example Sentences

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heroic verse

Of course, Lipsyte doesn’t provide a single word of of this life-changing, ruthless, heroic verse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2019

Bro. to F. B. Author Bosworth Field, a poem in heroic verse.

From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Oscar Fay Adams

“The Battle of Aughrim,” however, because it was written in heroic verse, became so popular that it was rehearsed at almost every Irish hearth, both 132 Catholic and Protestant, in the north.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

Henry V., 140*; heroic verse of, 184; It was a lover, etc.,

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

He then published Sketches of Travel and Society beyond the Atlantic—a satiric work in heroic verse, vigorously written, but politically evincing a miserable short-sightedness.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

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